This Spring, we connected Living Beauty Kim with Misti Barnes, certified Collagen Restoration Therapist, Micropigmentation Artist, and Phibrow Microblading Technician. Together, they began a journey to enhance Kim’s post mastectomy scars with areola pigmentation. What is an areola pigmentation service? MB: Areola Pigmentation is the placement of organic pigments – via a tattooing device – […]
Currently serving as Global Executive Director of Creative Artistry for stila Cosmetics, Sarah Lucero is without a doubt a #GoddessBoss. Given her rockstar status, charismatic spirit, and experience with The Foundation for Living Beauty, we asked if she’d be willing to chat with us to kick off our first corporate spotlight. We covered everything from […]
Kitty Blincoe has a particularly unique perspective as a yoga facilitator for The Foundation for Living Beauty, because she herself is a cancer survivor. Fourteen years ago, Kitty was diagnosed with kidney cancer in the midst of a successful, fast-paced career as a fashion executive. After her oncologist recommended reiki, Kitty began to recognize the […]
Surviving cancer has given me the ability to soar. Though my body is still in pain, I’ve learned if I focus on spirit, I experience true freedom, joy, and awareness. My spirit gives me the courage to speak out about my journey, and I now hope to be a voice for all who cannot speak […]
When I received my medical diagnosis in 2010 a spiral of negative thoughts began to overwhelm me. “What’s going to happen next? How will I pay my bills if I can’t work? How will I tell my friends, my loved ones?” I felt caught in a web of inertia — a tire stuck in the […]
I was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer on October 1, 2009. I don’t think anyone wants to hear those words but I knew I would beat it. The gloves were on and I was ready to kick butt. After nine months of chemotherapy, surgery, radiation, I thought I knocked it out. To my […]
My first diagnosis taught me that I needed to be vulnerable. With my second diagnosis, I am learning HOW to be vulnerable; to embrace all its power, its strengths, its beauty and its full potential…that being vulnerable actually makes you stronger.
On June 20, 2016, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Driving home from the doctor’s office upon diagnosis, I knew in my gut that I’d be able to fight this, that I’d do it with community and family, and that this was somehow a culmination of certain ways of being that I needed to transform […]
It’s as if something inside me got re-calibrated. My perception of my role in my family and my priorities and duties shifted entirely. I began putting myself first with ease. I tapped into that reserve strength we rarely get to use and I activated my healing, transforming from an off-kilter person to being intensely aware […]
Breast cancer has given me many gifts. I am the best person I have ever been. I have learned that I have the strength and courage to accomplish any goal I set for myself; including earning an AA, BA, and Master’s degree…during two battles with breast cancer, a mastectomy, chemotherapy (both times), radiation, and eight […]
